Coming up next weekend Crappie USA Inc., "America's Premier National Crappie Fishing Tournament Organization" will be holding a qualifying event on WheelerLake near Decatur, Alabama on March 28, 2009.

Despite the cold weather that continues to grip the region, hot crappie fishing on Wheeler Lake looms only a sustained day or two of sunshine and warmer weather away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With over 563,000 acres of lakes, ponds and wetlands teeming with bass, catfish and crappie, Alabama is an angler's paradise.

Janette Carter, right, drops the fish she and her husband Joe, center, caught during the opening day of the Crappie USA Wheeler Lake Super Event at Ingalls Harbor on Friday. Saturday's final day weigh ...